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First Principles: A Nation Should Promote the Minds and Morals of Its Children
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Aesop’s Fables
According to legend, born in approximately 620 BC, the Greek fabulist and story teller, Aesop, has been accredited with a plethora of stories each serving to teach invaluable lessons through the use of animals and inanimate objects that speak, problem … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop, Aesop's Fables, Aesopica, Education, Fabulist, Harvard Classics, Moral Guide, Slave, Story Teller
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First Principles: Children Should Be Educated In The Principles of Freedom
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.” –John Adams They aren’t any more. That’s why so many problems are festering until they reach the surface. So may of these are based on sheer ignorance of what … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Education, First Principles, Freedom, John Adams, Principles, Trained
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Thought For the Day: Consideration of Thought Does Not Mean Its Acceptance
“It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher Sometimes deep contemplation on the thoughts of others sharpens your own that are contrary. Consider the above. … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Aristotle, Comprehension, Consideration, Education, Multiple Sides, Non-Acceptance, Understand
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Thought For the Day: Thought Is the Blossom
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Tagged Action, Education, Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thinking, Thought, Thought For the Day, Words
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First Principles – Our Children Should Be Taught Our History
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse … Continue reading
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Tagged Beliefs, Books, Children, Country, Education, Edudcation of Youth In America, First Principles, History, Literature, Noah Webster, Patriotism
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Machiavelli – Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay was born on October 25, 1800. Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, General Maxims, Harvard Classics, India, Lord Macaulay, Machiavelli, Thomas Babington, Whig
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Thought For the Day: The Freedom To Criticize Brings True Praise As Well
“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise”. -Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)
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Tagged Art, Criticize, Education, Expression, Freedom, Pierre Beaumarchais, Praise, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: We Must Be Weary Of Education Becoming Indoctrination
“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think … but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Indoctrination, Propaganda, Students, Think, Thought For the Day, William F Buckley
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Tagged Americas, Education, Explore, History, Trade, Tradition
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